In May 2023, 23-year-old US fashionista Caryn Marjorie opened a paid “virtual girlfriend” or Caryn.AI, where a trained AI interacts with fans on the basis of a USD 1/minute price list instead.
During the opening week, he served According to Forbes, over USD 70,000. Creating the solution was neither easy nor cheap, as it is said that more than 2000 hours of video and other material were invested in creating the artificial clone.
Creating an AI clone
How difficult is it to give artificial intelligence all your knowledge, writing style, voice, etc. in the form of text, image and video and create a clone of yourself, who, when asked something, would answer more or less as you would say it yourself?
It turns out that creating an AI text bot is not difficult at all, as you can see in Matt Wolfe's video below.
A text response created by AI could be sent in the form of audio relatively easily, but it is still difficult to send a response in real time lip-sync in video form. I predict that in half a year at the latest it will be very real.
More questions than answers
It would be exciting in itself to be able to "talk" with the AI version of a complete guru in some field for even 1 EUR/minute. For example, with the AI version of Peep Laja, we are probably willing to interact for hours, just like an art critic.
On the other hand, the AI clone allows you to live virtually even after you leave this world. I can find out the name of my great-grandfather's x-father using geni.com, but my great-great-grandchildren's x-children would have the opportunity to know who I was, how I spoke, what I thought, etc.
3D cloning of actors is already happening in Hollywood, but few are currently doing it. Apparently, Harrison Ford doesn't want Indiana Jones to ever be part 276. However, a 3D clone of Morgan Freeman should be made, if only by force, for the sake of history.
However, embarking on the path of AI clones could be a first step in the very wrong direction. Unfortunately, these steps have already been taken. Character.ai i.e. a place where you can chat with created characters is currently more popular than ChatGPT in the US. Meta, or Facebook, created Mr. Beast, Snoop Dogg and other AI characters, and it probably won't be long before we get video answers instead of text-based answers.
The main keyword for artificial intelligence is development. A year ago no one knew where we would be today and today no one can predict where we will be in less than a year. I remind you that ChatGPT was launched less than a year ago, on November 30, 2022.
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